Port Shepstone is the main seat of the Ugu district on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast, and administers a second court and a periodical court further up the coast.
Official contact channels
- Port Shepstone Magistrate Court: 039 682 0136
- Temporary alternative: 066 291 3471
- Scottburgh Magistrates Court: 039 978 9400
Services and responsibilities
Scottburgh in turn administers the Sawoti periodical court, which sits at Raemar on the R612 Ixopo Road and shares the Scottburgh private bag. The department marks the Port Shepstone 066 number as temporary, which usually means a landline is out of service.
Office and address information
Port Shepstone is at 5 Berea Road, on the corner of Court House Road, 4240. Scottburgh is on the corner of Airth and Scott Street, 4180.
Applications and escalation
A caution on names in this district. The Halfway Toyota dealership called Scottburgh is actually at Park Rynie, and the one called Shelly Beach is at Shelly Beach near Port Shepstone, so a town name here identifies a court more reliably than it identifies a business.
Sources
- justice.gov.za/contact/lowercourts_full.html, the Department of Justice lower courts directory, read 2 September 2026.